polygon gave ni no kuni 6.5
gamespot gave fable the journey(the same guy who reviewed TLOU) 8

double post

I think it is called confirmation bias. Where you may not admit it; but you prefer the rest of the world, or at least the majority, shares your opinion.

I gave up on reviews a decade ago when several games I loved got low scores. One of my favorite games of all time received a 4/10 from the magazine I read at the time. I prefer now to rent games and see for myself if I enjoy it.

Saw the post below on 4chan together with this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGnmxxEmTok

It seems like many are suspicious rather than upset. If true isn't it wrong for a gaming site to receive so much money from one of the three major console makers? Doesn't it affect their ability to remain objective? Here's the post:

Does Microsoft have a finger in Polygon's pie?

The Last of Us has received over 25 perfect scores and is currently at 96/100 on Metacritic. All around the world it gets high praises. Yet, the newly started site Polygon gives it only 7.5.. To please Microsoft and say thanks for the $750,000 or to please Xbox fanboys and boost their number of members?

In the Polygon making-of series, it was said that all the reviewers got together to decide a game's final score. So it's not just one reviewer's subjective opinion.

The last couple of days Polygon banned members on both polygon.com and their facebook page for defending The Last of Us.

it was sarxcasm... i think people should play the game itself.... it is like watching a trailer and saying it is a good movie...

yes it is...

WAIT!, during the holiday Sony puts out very good bundles, and you can save easily 50 dollars of the current asking price. Also with the launch of their new console is possible that Sony cuts the price of the PS3.

I find this pretty ironic and hilarious. 

So, basically a reviwer expresses his opinion and people disagree with him and call him names, such as "stupid" (I'm sure), and then you get upset with their opinions and you call them "stupid" yourself. All it's left is for someone to call you the same for your opinion and you have a never ending chain of irony.

So, let me ask you this. Why are they stupid and the revewer is not? If any opinion is allowed, then all is fair. 

Speaking of opinions, there's a huge difference between my uneducated opinion of a videogame and the opinion of review, who is a professional and gets paid for it. Even if a vg journalist doens't personally like a game, he has to be professional and judge based on certain standards/using certain criteria. As a tutor I mark essays that I really dislike, but give them a good score because of a number of reasons such as use of references, writing style, points raised, use of English etc, but also have to look at them comparatively. If I give someone a 70, it means that it's overall better than someone who got a 70. Similarly, reviewers who give a 70 to game suggest that it's worse than a number of games they have reviewed, at least recently. The final score has to also take into account graphics, sound, voice acting, story, length, etc and thus shouldn't give a 70 just cause they didn't personally like something. That's why most revewers tend to agree with one another, because there are certain common criteria they are expected to use for their professional reviews. 

On a personal level, I don't care what Last of Us gets, because I'll never play it (it's genre is simly not my cup of tea), but that doens't mean that I don't mind when reviewers give whatever score they please, just cause they feel like it at the moment. I'm not saying that all reviewers should give the same score, but giving for example Journey a 20/100 just cause, when it's highly praised by the vast majority of the reviewers is not ok with me and yes I will complain about it. 

Writing a review is not just about liking a game, but most importantly providing a good analysis of the game that may help gamers decide whether it's worth their money. 

You might be true but you know what gives me headache its reading textes with no commas or periods or anything its really difficult to separate the sentences and read it so that it makes sense dont you agree

It is for some people, but that's not the whole story. As much as people deny it, metacritic can effect the sales and overall success of a game. I firmly believe that had Uncharted 2 not received such universally positive reviews, the franchise would not have been nearly as popular as it is right now. So, if the meta is insanely high, the game gets hype which translates into sales. I'm not saying that reviewers should lie so that games can be successful, but giving low scores for hits or being paid off by another company in terms of ads etc to give a bad score is unethical as far I am concerned and completely unacceptable. I good write a review for any game and give it a 5/10 and justify it in my review. That still doesn't make it ok.